Review: The Sea, 'Rooftops' (out now)

YOU could be forgiven for thinking that the Sea is bigger than two people, but you'd be wrong. Brothers Peter and Alex D'Chisholme (no that's not a typo) create an expansive sound, catchy rhythms and loud, deliberately enunciated lyrics.

I get the feeling this is a band who put all their emotions into a record, although lyrically they can come across as more than a little generic.

Their sound could have slipped under the radar from the mid 1990s, emphasised by the additional brass section on tracks like opener 'New York' and the 'wooah-oahs' and guitar reverb on 'Where's The Love'.

Tracks like 'Panic On The Streets of Dalston' could be a Robbie Williams cast-off from back in the day (no offence, fellas).

'Rooftops' is escapism from 2012 - the Sea talk about telephones ringing, not iPhones or Blackberrys, but telephones.

The band also really love London; it's mentioned not only in their lyrics and song titles but all over their album artwork.